You can use the Monitor accounting facility to collect data from Entire Operations Monitor tasks and functions performed by the Monitor and exits called by the Monitor. This can help you identify potential bottlenecks and improve the performance of the Monitor.

Monitor accounting must be enabled or disabled by setting the appropriate options as described in the following section. The Monitor accounting setting persists between restarts of the Monitor.

We recommend you to enable Monitor accounting only if required in order to avoid the overhead of performing Monitor tasks.

The data collected by Monitor accounting is written to the Entire Operations accounting file (see also Entire Operations Files).

You can generate a report from Monitor accounting data by using the appropriate reporting functions provided by Entire Operations GUI Client.

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Enabling Monitor Accounting

To enable and disable Monitor accounting

1. From the System Services Menu, select the Monitor Accounting option and press ENTER.

   A Monitor Accounting screen similar to the example below appears:

   15.10.18 ***** Entire Operations ***** 11:53:31 Monitor Accounting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable Monitor Accounting ==> Y (Y/N) Interval ==> 10________ (Minutes) Start Accounting on ==> __________ at ==> ________ Stop Accounting on ==> __________ at ==> ________ Enter-PF1---PF2---PF3---PF4---PF5---PF6---PF7---PF8---PF9---PF10--PF11--PF12--- Help End Save

2. In the input fields, enter the required values and choose PF5 to save your entries.

   The fields and valid input values are explained in Fields: Monitor Accounting.

Fields: Monitor Accounting

The fields on the Monitor Accounting screen are explained in the following table:

Field	Description
Enable Monitor Accounting	Enable or disable Monitor accounting. Possible values:
	Y	Enable Monitor accounting. Data collection starts immediately or on the date/time defined in Start Accounting.
	N	Disable Monitor accounting (default).
Interval	Time interval (in minutes) between two data collection attempts. Monitor accounting data is collected at the end of the given interval for each Monitor task and function performed or Monitor exit called. Valid values: 1 - 9999 Default: 10 minutes.
Start Accounting	Date and time when Monitor accounting starts. If accounting is enabled and these fields are left empty, data collection starts immediately.
Stop Accounting	Date and time when Monitor accounting stops. If accounting is enabled and these fields are left empty, data collection remains active until the Enable Monitor Accounting option is disabled.